Re: [89attendees] This hotel needs to rated on TripAdvisor

[Thomas Herbst <[e-mail]>]

+1

Attempting to avoid piling on, but on the hot water issue it clearly is
that the system is over subscribed when synchronized with our meeting
schedule.  A request to the hotel is unlikely to yield anything useful but
an acceptable work around is to get up early and use the the available hot
water before the rest of you get to it.

As a resident of the 9th floor of the tower, the biggest disappointment
has been the lack of a functional network.  Perhaps the heroic efforts in
Paris set an unreasonable expectation, but there is no wired network in my
room (I've moved every bit of furniture and examined every wall plate) and
the WIFI no longer even supports receiving or sending email, much less
voip.  This has resulted in the need to find other quiet places in the
hotel to do US timezone meetings late into the night.  For the benefit of
the community, I've resisted doing these meetings in my pajamas.

tom

On 3/5/14 2:27 AM, "Adam Roach" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>On 3/5/14 10:09, Randall Gellens wrote:
>> Lack of hot water is a serious issue and should be immediately
>> reported to the hotel.  If it has been reported, were they able to
>> correct it? 
>
>Not that I've reported it, but with a data point of my room on the 20th
>floor, and corroborated by asking a few other people in the tower, it
>seems that you can generally draw hot water in the afternoon and evening
>without a problem, while the best you can get is in the range of "cold
>to tepid" in the mornings. This tells me that the problem is systemic,
>and not something in my room. I suspect that the synchronicity of
>several hundred people trying to get to meetings that all start at
>exactly the same time is more than the system has been dimensioned for.
>
>Which is to say: I suspect the problem can't be fixed without a complete
>overhaul of the water heating system in the tower; and I surmise that
>this won't be done in the few days before I leave. My experience at
>hotels is that asking them to fix something that can't quickly be solved
>by one person with a wrench generally results in a punitive visit from
>maintenance staff who then fiddle with something until it breaks.
>
>/a
>
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